Wouter De Coster
Postdoctoral Researcher at VIB
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolWouter De Coster is a bioinformatics postdoctoral researcher with 10 years of experience applying short- and long-read sequencing to neurodegenerative disease research at VIB and the Rademakers Lab in Antwerp. He combines hands-on sequencing assay development and variant prioritization from his PhD and master’s work with robust computational skills, contributing automation and build/release improvements to the widely used Bioconda recipes. Curious and pragmatic, he enjoys fixing both small pipeline bugs and large reproducibility challenges by adapting compilers, toolchains and packaging for complex genomics tools. Trained magna cum laude in biochemistry and biotechnology, he also holds practical lab credentials (Felasa C) and a history of wet-lab validation, giving him rare fluency across bench and bioinformatics workflows.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Gemeentelijk Instituut BrasschaatMaster of Science (MSc), Biochemistry and biotechnology, Magna Cum Laude, Master of Science (MSc), Biochemistry and biotechnology, Magna Cum Laude at Universiteit Antwerpen
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
429reputation
17kreached
2answers
11questions
Github Skills (21)
package-management10
conda10
bash10
automation10
automations10
c-language9
cprogramming-language9
rust9
cicd8
bioinformatics7
cmake7
powershell6
generics6
iterator6
orchestration6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
bioconda/bioconda-recipes
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Conda recipes for the bioconda channel.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:41 reviews, 33 commits, 97 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Wouter's contributions primarily revolve around automating build processes and adapting recipes for the Bioconda package management system. This includes modifying build scripts (build.sh) to integrate tools like `g++`, `CXX`, and `Rust`, and adjusting compiler flags and dependencies. The user has also worked on integrating new tools (like `sansa`, `cramino`, `phasius`, and `chopper`) into the Bioconda system and updating existing packages. These modifications required making changes to existing code and adapting to new tools and compilation requirements.
recipescondabiocondabioinformaticspackage-management
conda-forge/upsetplot-feedstock
Sep 2020 - Dec 2024
A conda-smithy repository for upsetplot.
Contributions:3 reviews, 12 PRs, 11 pushes in 4 years 4 months
condasmithy
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.